Is twice weekly, in most cases, in my opinion.
For the longest time, I refused to accept this; doggedly sticking to the roughly four times weekly frequency I’d been accustomed to since at least 2015 or thereabouts.
To be fair, lifting that often worked very well for the stage of life I was in. (As an unencumbered 20-something, there was no excuse for me not to hit the gym and lift most days of the week.)
However.
With age comes responsibility, not to mention a subtle yet undeniable decline in one’s ability to recover from training (this is part and parcel of getting older, it’s not the medical fiction known as “andropause” drug dealers use to push TRT on men who have a shaky relationship with their mortality).
Combine the two and you have a recipe for trouble. Not “disaster” – feeling unenthused about training and a little more beaten up isn’t the end of the world. Nevertheless, the last thing you want is for training to feel like a grind given it’s something you do week in, week out (or, at least you should), so the potential is there for it to cast a shadow over pretty much everything.
Hence why now I lift twice weekly for most of the year.
I train far more often than that (mostly vest workouts and runs), and there are times when I’ll hit the gym proper four (and sometimes more) times per week (as I did most recently when I was stress testing the programmes for “The Greek Physique”). But twice is my staple and most likely will be from now until I shuffle off this mortal coil.
Anyway.
I originally wrote this email as part of a promotion for a different offer, so there is no clever link to what I’m flogging today.
So all I shall say is, if you want tools to fill your training toolbox and accountability in the form of something physical thundering through your letterbox every month without fail…
… and…
… you have 66p per day to spend on getting strong and in shape.
Get yourself subscribed to The Phil Tyreman Letter.
Behold the info:
https://philtyreman.co.uk/information/
Thank you,
Phil Tyreman